This Carnegie Library was one of four architecturally similar but varied branches built under a 1914 grant to
the city of Oakland, in four different North and East Oakland neighborhoods, designed by Oakland architects of statewide prominence.
This branch was designed by William H. Weeks and C. Christensen in the
Classical Revival style.

It has served continuously as an Oakland Public Library branch from its construction to the present. Physically it is virtually
unchanged both inside and out.